Tom said: ” Burning your own property is your right as a freeborn Englishman. “<\/p>\n

Mathewson said: “Well, the Nuremberg burning book rallies, I mean, were they were they great? Were they legal? They were legal at the time in Germany. Did you support them, Tom?”<\/p>\n

Tom said: “This is a fundamental point. Just because I support the right of anyone to burn a British flag that they own.”<\/p>\n

He added: “It is a speech act, what a wonderful example of American free speech rights. <\/p>\n

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“A heinous act that I deplore but it is legal. In the same way that burning any religious book is obviously a heinous act, it is morally cowardice but my goodness me in a free society should it not be legal?”<\/p>\n

Mathewson said: “In a society where people are facing increased dangers to their own safety because of targeting of those groups, the Koran represents as Muslims and the rise of Islamophobic crimes and hatred in the streets is clear. <\/p>\n

“It would be the same for somebody burning a copy of the Torah. I am not religious. I’m an atheist and I don’t believe in any religious book. I don’t hold them sacred at all.”<\/p>\n

Tom said: “But you clearly do, if you think it should be illegal.”<\/p>\n

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